Kyle Rittenhouse’s former publicist swears ‘fucking murder’ on shoplifter outside pharmacy before ex-customer shot and killed two people during racial justice protests in Wisconsin in 2020 He said he became disillusioned with his former client after learning he had been texting her.
Dave Hancock made such remarks about Rittenhouse, who also worked as a security guard, in a law and crime documentary that premiered Friday. The program highlighted the failed criminal prosecution of Rittenhouse for the murders of Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
As Hancock said in The Trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, the 90-minute film’s main subjects include “the history of what he was doing before[the double murders]especially what he did with a gun. He spent months patrolling the streets, borrowing people’s security uniforms, doing whatever he could to try and start some kind of fight.”
Nevertheless, Mr. Hancock said that when he first told Mr. Rittenhouse that he had shot Mr. Rosenbaum and Mr. Huber, he initially believed the claim of self-defense. But that changed later when the family of one of the men killed in Kenosha learned of text messages that had surfaced as part of a civil lawsuit against Rittenhouse seeking wrongful death damages.
In the new film, Hancock says Rittenhouse sent a text message from his cell phone on the night of the Kenosha murders on Aug. 25. The text was in response to seeing a shoplifter at a CVS Pharmacy on Aug. 10, a little more than two weeks before the shooting in Kenosha.
A preview of the “Kyle Rittenhouse trial” provided to the Guardian reads: “The world is disgusted.” Another said: “It makes me feel (fucking) sick.
“I wish they would come to my house,” one person wrote.
“We will kill them once and for all.”
Commenting on the text while speaking to Law & Crime’s chief investigative correspondent Brian Ross, Hancock said: “This is where he’s strangled – you know what I mean?” Is that so?” he said.
He also said, “My first impression was of a child who was scared, arrogant, and unaware of the world around him. When he told me that story, I believed he was being sincere.” I did.
“I believed what he said, but now I realize it was one of his many lies. And it hurts. It sucks.”
About two weeks later, 17-year-old Rittenhouse traveled from his home in Antioch, Illinois, to Kenosha, 20 miles (32 kilometers) away, as protests erupted after a white police officer shot and killed Jacob Blake, a black man. . Blake’s shooting came nearly three months after a white Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd, a black man seen on cellphone video recording.
Rittenhouse used a rifle to kill Rosenbaum, 36, and Huber, 26, while roaming the streets of Kenosha with other gunmen he had assigned as security guards. . He also injured a third man and was charged with five felonies, including first-degree intentional homicide. murder.
Rittenhouse told jurors in his criminal trial that he acted in self-defense and was justified in his actions. Jurors ultimately acquitted Rittenhouse of all charges in November 2021, a verdict hailed by far-right politicians and pundits as a significant legal victory, and civil rights activists denounced the results.
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A wrongful death lawsuit against Rittenhouse is pending.
Hancock continued to serve as Rittenhouse’s publicist and security guard even after his criminal acquittal.
Immediately after the verdict was read, Hancock spoke at length with news media reporters, saying, “Kyle is very realistic about what happened, so good things will come from this.”
Hancock also helped promote Rittenhouse’s book, calling it “a young man’s very unconventional journey to adulthood, what it took to make it, and the lessons he learned along the way.” It was characterized as “a story.”
But Hancock had moved on from those positions by the time The Trial of Kyle Rittenhouse debuted.
Rittenhouse’s book has reportedly been bombed on Amazon’s Kindle platform. Most recently, the self-proclaimed gun rights activist was a candidate for Donald Trump in the November White House election, before his vitriol on social media successfully pressured him to support the former president. announced that it would not support it.
The Kyle Rittenhouse trial will be rebroadcast Sunday at 8pm ET on Law & Crime and will air on basic cable packages and streaming services such as YouTube TV and Peacock. It will also be available on demand, a spokesperson for the network said.
